Welcome to Azucar Online!

We started as a Latin dance school based in Ottawa, Canada. Since 2012, we have been sharing our love of dance with our students and our local community. 

We love dance and teaching in equal measures, and nothing brings us more joy than to see our students succeed. We have taught thousands of people to dance in person, and now we're excited to the same care and love to online courses!

Expert Instructors

We take the skill of teaching as seriously as we take our dance training, and we know “just do what I do” won’t cut it! We understand that instruction needs and learning styles vary widely, we tailor our classes accordingly and we’re always looking to get better as teachers and as dancers.

Your Dance Family

Latin dance is an inherently social activity, and we aim to bring that community spirit into our online courses. Each class has a discussion board where you can connect with other dancers, and we encourage you to join our community on social media and be part of the #AzuFam!


INSTRUCTORS

Ana Gherasim

They/She

A lifelong learner and educator, Ana is passionate about the pedagogy of dance and is always looking for ways to tweak and improve their teaching as well as their dancing. Ana grew up convinced that they had two left feet, but fell in love with social dancing in 2008, and never looked back. Their classes always try to balance fun challenge with accessibility and empathy for fellow slow learners.

Talek Cameron

He/Him

Talek began dancing in his early 20’s; he took lessons from anywhere he could and the more he learned, the more he discovered his new passion in life. Having no prior dance experience proved challenging. It wasn’t until he moved to Ottawa that he overcame that challenge by exposing himself to a new level of dancing. Today, Talek can be found performing on stage, social dancing (his favorite thing to do) and continuing to try and best himself. Talek is thrilled to now be able to share his passion in the classroom and help give back to the Latin dance scene.